cephalopod

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles
  • Adjective:
    relating or belonging to the class Cephalopoda

Word Origin

cephalopod (n.)
1825, from French cephalopode, from Modern Latin Cephalopoda (the class name), from Greek kephale "head" (see cephalo-) + pod-, stem of pous "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)).

Example

1. But the two-year-old cephalopod eventually returned to his first choice .
2. Frozen fish , frozen shrimps , frozen crab , frozen cephalopod .
3. The ordovician cephalopod fauna and the subdivision of ordovian from southern xizang .
4. A gap analysis of the distributions of cephalopod species worldwide with a focus on commercially important species .
5. Frozen shrimp products , frozen cephalopod fishery products , frozen fish fillet .

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